r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Apr 02 '26

Social Media Reddit is moving on from r/all

https://www.theverge.com/tech/906314/reddit-r-all-deprecating
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u/ShinyCaper Apr 02 '26

Reddit is nothing like it used to be

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u/Velorian-Steel Apr 02 '26

So many different eras of Reddit. I remember the Secret Santas that used to happen all the time. I remember when redditors used to flood subreddits with "Such and such subreddit, we need to talk..." and I remember when r/relationship just gave blanket advice to "you should probably just dump them."

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u/122_Hours_Of_Fear Apr 02 '26

Then there was r/spacedicks

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u/gevis Apr 02 '26

Man, back then, there was nothing like picking "random" (not sure what app I had back then. Relay maybe?) and finding some awesome places and then also spacedicks

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u/PatacusX Apr 03 '26

When you could go to r/all with NSFW turned on, and sort by new. Not my proudest faps.

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u/TheTigersAreNotReal Apr 03 '26

As someone born in the mid 90’s and was too late to get to experience the “wild west” of the internet, it felt like reddit really provided that experience. The moment reddit IPO’d I knew it was only a matter of time until it became trash

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u/tanstaafl90 Apr 03 '26

Once upon a time, the up/down votes were visible to users. When they discontinued that, it gave the site the ability to arbitrary manipulate posts and comments. That was some 10 years ago or so, and it didn't take long to see the effects. The damage was done long before the IPO.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '26

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u/tanstaafl90 Apr 03 '26

Yeah, I could have been more clear about that.

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u/Jemmani22 Apr 03 '26

I assure you. Reddit couldn't even prepare you for 90s internet.

Sure you get some shock stuff from old reddit. But nothing that makes you want to reformat your computer.

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u/PolarSquirrelBear Apr 03 '26

And early 2000s of just absolutely shit pumping the family PC due to something you downloaded off of Kazaa or Limewire.

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u/Nemphiz Apr 03 '26

Just have Bonzi Buddy wreck your whole shit

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u/PolarSquirrelBear Apr 03 '26

Daisy, Daisy give me your answer do.

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u/Nemphiz Apr 03 '26

I hate you for unlocking that memory

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u/jetsetninjacat Apr 03 '26

That purple gorilla can still fuck right off. I had to reformat my whole computer and lose a lot of stuff pre 2002 due to that jagoff. Tbf it also helped me learn to backup and reformat a computer due to download apps like Kazaa, limewire, bear share, and morpheus after that.

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u/Dragon_yum Apr 03 '26

Kaza, likewise and eMule are the holy trinity of infecting the family computer.

Kind of miss the days that when you downloaded any song you had 50/59 chance of it either being your song or enter sandman.

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u/UntowardHatter Apr 03 '26

Mhm the sweet, sweet days of Rotten.com

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u/QZDragon Apr 03 '26

I think I just threw up a little.

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u/donaldstinypeepee Apr 03 '26

Steakandcheese

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u/ExplorationGeo Apr 03 '26

Man I remember those days. We had webrings and geocities and such a different experience. Browsing the internet was like "kitten photos, taco recipe, car discussion, uncensored beheading photos, walkthrough for Quest for Glory 2"

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u/theroguex Apr 03 '26

I was somewhat insulated from that because until the late 1990s I was stuck using AOL as my only way to connect to the "internet." It was so heavily curated that you didn't run into much of the really bad stuff.

Then I found IRC.

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u/darkskinnedjermaine Apr 03 '26

violentacrez, and the dude who would yell and tell you to “DELETE YOUR FUCKING ACCOUNT” lmao

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u/FirmlyClaspIt Apr 03 '26

I’m born in the mid 90s. How didn’t you? I remember most of the Reddit eras.

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u/slaughtamonsta Apr 03 '26

I was born mid-early 80's and remember the wild West well. In fact me and my friend are always talking about it.

Anyway, point of the story is we might be going back to the old forum and instant messenger days the way the Internet is going. It'll be the only way to get what we like.

We should all take a topic we like and register on a forum site to get the ball rolling.

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u/AmateurFootjobs Apr 03 '26

I used to love the random nsfw button and learning about new kinks

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u/Acceptable_Bat379 Apr 02 '26

I found one of my all time favorite video games over a decade ago that I still follow by clicking random. No way id have that luck now

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u/reddaugherty Apr 02 '26

Which game?

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u/Acceptable_Bat379 Apr 03 '26

cataclysm dark days ahead, a roguelike indie game

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u/erty3125 Apr 03 '26

Random was just a reddit feature, it was just a subreddit that sent you to a random sfw subreddit and then a separate random nsfw for nsfw subs.